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Re:Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astro... by jlmorton on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:12PM (#22926646)
This is not just a guy on Twitter, he's a well-known reporter for Mother Jones Magazine.

What he's saying does not dispute anything in the well-cited Reddit post. It just offers new information which paints it in an entirely different light. Because rather than basing the entire allegation on WHOIS records, he reached out to talk to the person involved, something that reporters do, but the Reddit hivemind does not.

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Re:Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astro... by free_rms on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:15PM (#22926673)
Did you read the comment that this thread is linked to?

It's not based on WHOIS records for non-existent sites, it's based on CMS, HTML elements and identifies specific PR consultancies.

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